frameful

plural framefuls · plural framesful

1. A quantity that fills a frame (any sense).

   Several framesful of old patent medicine and revenue stamps bore out the date on the sign.

   1913, The Pharmaceutical Era - Volume 46, page 516

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   In the old days each frameful was of one colour; but now, by what is called “planting,” an extra colour or two may be worked in the frames, providing it is done judiciously, so as not to produce a perceptible stripe.

   1896, The Leisure Hour, page 391

   Spread out the wet mixture of sand and cement so that two framefuls of screened gravel or crushed rock may be placed upon it.

   1912, Farmers' Bulletin - Issues 476-500, page 11

   And all she saw was a frameful of twinkling stars and inky scrub between the posts and lintel of a bush verandah.

   1913, Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton, Sidney Daryl, Charles Robert Morley, The Pall Mall Magazine - Volume 51, page 320

   The sparrows had done exactly the same ; and in one garden, at any rate, had expressed their unseasonable hunger by falling on a frameful of lettuces and devouring the best leaves, just as the pigeons are skeletonising the turnips on adjacent tilths.

   1935, Sir William Beach Thomas, Village England, page 43

   After you've made a frameful of wall, remove the bolts, detach the frame, and slide it along for the next section.

   1945, The Rotarian - Volumes 66-69, page 40